Ecommerce

Scroll, shop, scroll: Social commerce to hit $1.2 trillion by 2025, expand in beauty industry

04-Feb-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

As the use of digital devices rises and more young people enter the beauty consumer space, Accenture's new report estimates social commerce will more than double by 2025.

Experience-first beauty: A.S. Watson bolsters engagement with AI-powered skin advisor tool

22-Dec-2021 By Kacey Culliney

Retail major A.S. Watson has grown digital beauty engagement across Superdrug and ICI PARIS XL with an AI-powered skin advisor tool co-developed with Finnish beauty tech firm Revieve – an innovation it plans to rollout across Asia next year.

High street hopes: Boots has made ‘good’ in-store moves but e-commerce now needs focus, says expert

25-Oct-2021 By Kacey Culliney

Retail major Walgreens Boots Alliance has unveiled a series of UK high street investments in recent months, but focus and investment must now be directed towards e-commerce if the retailer wants to remain competitive, says an expert.

Digital Dive: Top stories on digital developments making waves in the beauty industry

31-Mar-2021 By Amanda Lim

In this round-up of the top five stories on the digital developments in beauty, we highlight A.S. Watson insights on the future of it omnichannel retail business, SK-II’s strategy to forging closer connections online and how P&G narrows the online...

Digital rush: ‘The way we interact with beauty has completely changed’, says Feelunique exec

16-Nov-2020 By Kacey Culliney

Beauty continues to chase the digital boom most recently propelled by COVID-19, and creating engaging, impartial and authentic retail spaces is vital to success, says the head of onsite experience at Feelunique.

Social media woes? Cosmetic brands ‘cannot govern' spread of information, claims study

15-Oct-2020 By Kacey Culliney

A study analysing Sephora and Ulta Beauty’s Twitter activity and networks has suggested cosmetic brands only have limited control over communications within their networks, opening up important points of discussion for industry, the researchers say.

The Hut Group just acquired Perricone MD for $60 million cash

01-Oct-2020 By Deanna Utroske

The UK-based ecommerce company partners with and purchases lifestyle, fashion, nutrition, and beauty brands to help them win in the D2C marketplace. And that’s exactly where this popular prestige skin care brand is going.

Tapping Indonesia’s online potential: D2C ‘best strategy’ but firms must clear tricky hurdles

28-Sep-2020 By Amanda Lim

The Indonesian beauty market one of South East Asia’s biggest opportunities, but despite the low barriers to entry via cross-border e-commerce, cosmetic companies must take note of the market’s set of unique challenges.

‘Customer data is the new oil’: Beauty Matching Engine uses AI and big data to create personalised retail models

31-Aug-2020 By Kacey Culliney

Tech start-up Beauty Matching Engine is using artificial intelligence and big data to offer beauty brands and retailers highly personalised white-label retail models to optimise business.

Digital push: Sa Sa International strengthens online efforts to brace against tough market conditions

29-Jul-2020 By Amanda Lim

Hong Kong-based cosmetics retailer Sa Sa International is placing more attention on its online channels in order to help the company reduce cost and make up for it battered brick-and-mortar outlets.

A ‘resilient’ D2C future: Beauty brands partner with The Hut Group to expand online

24-Jun-2020 By Kacey Culliney

Elemis, PZ Cussons Beauty, Burt’s Bees, Nuxe, Revolution Beauty and By Terry have all partnered with The Hut Group’s tech division Ingenuity to launch or expand direct-to-consumer offerings.

A Big Step in a Better Direction: sustainable ecommerce packaging

27-May-2020 By Deanna Utroske

In the cosmetics and personal care business today, DTC mailing and retail drop shipping are not uncommon, especially not since the Coronavirus pandemic. But sustainable beauty packaging remains elusive. Founders Rebecca Percasky and Kate Bezar believe...

Beauty Tech Innovation: virtual real-time brow try-on is here

21-May-2020 By Deanna Utroske

Today, Perfect Corp. and Benefit Cosmetics launched a new WeChat mini program that lets mobile beauty consumers choose the right eyebrow look before an in-store appointment.

Beauty online: Our most-read stories on the online beauty market

23-Jan-2020 By Amanda Lim

We round up our top stories on e-commerce developments featuring Lazada’s venture into new-retail, illegal cosmetics on Amazon and eBay, G&M’s expansion into India through Amazon India, and more.